Ottawa county should have a railroad, and have acted sensibly in this.Ĭulver Township is about to vote bonds to build a bridge across the Saline river.Īs a cicerone (and we made a good one) to Col. Minneapolis and Lindsay both worked for the proposition.
Ottawa county has just voted $150,000 to the Solomon Valley Railroad. The Lindsay “Pioneer” has “seen” Hanna and “gone him one better.” That paper has obtained the county printing at “91 percent, off from legal rates.” Goddard is a generous chap, but we don’t think he see any great profit in this little arrangement. It instances when travelers at the distance have imagined the vapor arising therefrom to be a raging fire. The “Independent” is bemoaning the fact that a certain ice house of that town has only straw for a roof. Ingersoll, of Lindsay, would damage his prospects at the election next fall. Mohler’s solicitations, because Mohler was afraid A.J. The Saline County Journal, Febru~ Submitted by Lisa SmalleyĪ correspondent of the Minneapolis “Independent”, writing from Topeka says Ottawa county was left off the proposed XIV. The Topeka papers are requested to make a note of this. John Harshbarger, Minneapolis or any information may be addressed to Mr. If this strikes his eye he is requested to write to Mr. he had a black pony mare and a very fine gelding and about one hundred dollars in money. Joseph Kessler’s on Salt creek, Ottawa county, last August for Topeka, to attend school there. Some fears are entertained _? _? James Williams, a black man, about twenty-three or four years old, who left Mr. The Saline County Journal, J~ Submitted by Lisa Smalley It is presumed the nomination of an Ottawa county farmer was made in anticipation of the Republicans naming a champion from the city of Salina. The customary resolutions were adopted and all went smoothly. Baldwin, an Ottawa county farmer was nominated for senator. The people’s party senatorial convention was held in this city last Saturday, and a genuine love feast was indulged in by the faithful. Minneapolis ~ J~ Submitted by Lisa Smalley What will the malcontents do next? It is to be hoped that they will stay at home and attend to their own business, and let the county seat remain where the people of Ottawa county have put it, and where the people of Ottawa county now wish it to be, namely, at Minneapolis. The Commissioners say, after spending half a day investigating the matter, that the petition lacks 75 names, and of course they ordered that no election be had. The main point in the question was, did the petition contain three-fifths of the legal electors on the assessment rolls. Lindsey lawyers dealt in Glittering generalities,” hallucinations, and false declarations. Our lawyers quoted law, stated facts, and made points.
The Minneapolis side was well advercated by Major Cox, of Junction City, and Col. The Lindsey side was represented by attorney’s, Brown of Solomon city S.Y. On these facts being known, the Commissioners who are fearless in the performance of their duty, had a called session, which convened on the 17th, and lasted through the 18th, to the 19th. The friends of Minneapolis gave the petition and the assessment rolls a rigid examination and found 123 illegal names on the petition, and that the petition lacked 74 names of having the legal number to call an election. On a hasty and superficial examination of the petition, and by unfounded and illegal representations of the legal adviser of the county, the Commissioners were induced to order an election. On the 4th of July, when honest patriotic men were celebrating their nation’s holiday, these disturbers of the peace and prosperity of Ottawa county, sneaked in before the Board of Commissioners just a sthey were ready to adjourn, and called for action on their petition asking a vote on the relocation of the county seat of Ottawa county. This town has outvoted the opposing party has beat them lawing, and now has thwarted them in the matter of getting another vote on the question. The Ottowa county seat question has been decided again in favor of Minneapolis.